GARDNER - The court has ruled in favor of the Gardner Fire Protection District over the former Gardner Fire Department and as a result the district will be able to take over the firehouse.

"(The court ruled) we appropriately terminated the contract and therefore all department assets belong to the district," said district attorney Rick Porter of Hinshaw & Culbertson. "In light of that we're going to take possession of the building."

Porter said he is trying to contact the department's attorney, Tim Rathbun of Rathbun, Cservenyak & Kozol, to find out when the district could move into the firehouse.